A quick review of the Cartesian Coordinate system, including formulas for length and slope of a line segment. It also provides and introduction to the graphing applet used in this lab and others.More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This activity is perfect for grade 7 and 8 students who are just learning about slope. The tutorial applet allows students to drag collinear points on a plane. As they move the points, the students wi...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This eModule uses interactive graphs to help students deepen their understanding of slope and extend the definition of slope to writing the equation of lines. Online worksheets with immediate feedback...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

Compare different representations of motion: a story, a position graph, and the motion itself. Create a graph that matches a story, or write a story to match a graph, and check either by watching Mell...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This is a computer activity using Sketchpad and specially selected pictures located online (SlopePix web page) to help students understand the concept of slope. Following the instructions, students...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

Students use a two-player game to develop and refine their sense of the slopes of lines. The link to the activity itself is to a zip file that contains both the activity in pdf format and the corr...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This eModule uses interactive graphs to help students deepen their understanding of slope and extend the definition of slope to writing the equation of lines. Online worksheets with immediate feedback...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

A collection of illustrated concepts including problems for students to work out, and standalone word problems. Includes automated feedback. Pre- and post-tests, answer sheets, additional help, tools,...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This application is a basic tool for learning algebra. Users try to solve a system of linear equations with two equations and two unknown variables. It is based on the same problem used in the free ap...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This Flash program gives students practice on determining the slope of a line from two points on that line. It randomly generates ten problems which you can print and distribute. An answer sheet is al...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This Flash program gives students practice on finding the slope and y-intercept values, using the standard form of the equation of a straight line. It randomly generates ten problems which you can pri...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

An interactive applet and associated web page that demonstrate the equation of a line in point-slope form.
The user can move a slider that controls the slope, and can drag the point that defines...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

An interactive applet and associated web page that demonstrate the equation of a line in coordinate geometry.
The equation is in slope / intercept form (y=mx+b). The user can move two sliders t...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

An interactive applet and associated web page that demonstrate the slope (m) of a line.
The applet has two points that define a line. As the user drags either point it continuously
recalculate...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

Highlight the meaning of each component of a linear function's symbolic expression with this tool that links symbolic and graphic representations of translating (dragging) a line vertically or horizon...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

One or two player game reinforcing slope and intercept. Three levels of play help students ramp up from lines passing through the origin, to lines with a fixed y-intercept, to lines through two fixed...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

Play this customizable game by entering functions that "hit" certain coordinates while avoiding others. Players (or teachers) can add as many of the coordinates to target or avoid, as well as set colo...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

The user reviews the slope and y-intercept of a line and learns how to graph a linear equation. After viewing examples, users can interactively practice determining the linear equation for each line ...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

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